User:EEng
Wikipedia essay deriding referring to ships as ''she''
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Welcome to the user page of Edwin Engelbarth, Esquire.[1]
While it is true that we in this nation remain free to be idiotic, it does not necessarily follow that we must be idiotic in order to be free.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
What has been happening in Germany is a matter of the gravest portent for the whole civilised world. Throughout the last hundred and fifty years, individual Germans have done more to further civilisation than the individuals of any other country; during the latter half of this period, Germans, collectively, have been equally effective in degrading civilisation ... Given a few years of Nazi rule, Germany will sink to the level of a horde of Goths.
What has happened? What has happened is quite simple. Those elements of the population which are both brutal and stupid (and these two qualities usually go together) have combined against the rest. By murder, by torture, by imprisonment, by the terrorism of armed forces, they have subjected the intelligent and humane parts of the nation and seized power with the view of furthering the glory of the Fatherland ...
[F]orce tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilisation. The danger is profound and terrible; it cannot be waved aside with easy optimism. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt ...
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
deficiency, and 
satirized for your protection.
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- From our article on Boston Globe publisher Thomas Winship:
He was a police reporter at The Post when he was offered a job as press secretary to Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a Massachusetts Republican. The experience led Winship to become a Democrat.
- I hasten to remind our readers that Leverett Saltonstall was an old-fashioned, non-crazy Republican, and really not at all a bad guy.
And that's the good behavior
- From our article on HM Prison Pentridge:
The prison was split into divisions, named using letters of the alphabet.
A – Short- and long-term prisoners of good behaviour. During the late 1980s, until its closure it became a scene of many monthly bashings, stabbings and bludgeonings.
When Wikipedia editors go bad
DENVER (CBS4)- Investigators believe the man dubbed the "Good Grammar Bandit" has struck seven banks in recent months. He earned the nickname because of the typed and grammatically-correct demand notes used during the robberies ...
Perhaps it's just as well that Tom Lehrer isn't alive to see this
- Tom Lehrer's "Send the Marines"
When someone makes a move / Of which we don't approve
Who is it that always intervenes?
U.N. and O.A.S. / They have their place, I guess
But first -- send the Marines!
We'll send them all we've got / John Wayne and Randolph Scott
Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
To the shores of Tripoli / But not to Mississippoli
What do we do? We send the Marines!
For might makes right / And till they've seen the light
They've got to be protected / All their rights respected
Till somebody we like can be elected!
Members of the corps / All hate the thought of war
They'd rather kill them off by peaceful means
Stop calling it aggression / We hate that expression!
We only want the world to know / That we support the status quo
They love us everywhere we go
So when in doubt -- Send the Marines!
Professor Barff, humanity thanks you
- From our article on boro glycerine:
At a meeting of the Society of Arts, on March 29, 1882, Professor Barff delivered a lecture, in which he announced his discovery of boro-glycerine. Barff had been attempting to find a way in which boric acid, a known antiseptic, could be used to preserve meats ...
- Research prompted, one imagines, by Professor Barff's personal experience with food spoilage?
Words to live (and write) by
I can die happy now
This morning I used Google to look up the number of the Boston University dental school, and just now I wanted the exact text of a passage from Hound of the Baskervilles, in which Hugo Baskerville warns his sons "to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted". But through some accident of autocompletion I apparently submitted to Google the string bu dentalaskervilles hours of darkness evil exalted. Here's what I got in return:
There is no indication of any connection between "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, which has regular operating hours Monday through Saturday, and there is no indication that the terms "hours of darkness" and "powers of evil" are used by BU Dental for anything specific.
Plato worries about YouTube
Youth is the time when the character is being molded and easily takes any impression one may wish to stamp on it. Shall we then simply allow our children to listen to any stories that anyone happens to make up and so receive into their minds ideas often the very opposite to those we shall think they ought to have when they are grown up?
Modern family
- From our article John Ferrar:
He had made his daughter Virginia Ferrar his executor and not his wife or his son.
You sure know how to show a girl a good time
In 2013, Peter Hendy, who was then the Commissioner of Transport for London, was accused of engaging in a nine-month extramarital affair with a call girl. She alleged that Hendy provided her with several Oyster cards loaded with £10 as gifts.
- Oi, mate. Don't knock it till you've tried it! Beats the old Eel card hands down. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Though there are worse fates, I suppose
The 14th century text Prabandha Kosha claims that Durlabha defeated the Gurjara king, brought him to the Chahamana capital Ajmer in chains and forced him to sell yogurt in a market.
I couldn't put it down
- From our article on the novel The Pit, by Frank Norris:
It was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat ... Together the three novels were to follow the journey of a crop of wheat from its planting in California to its ultimate consumption as bread in Western Europe.
Still a few bugs in the system
- Helpful information from Google AI Overview in response to the question, "Who played the sister in the film Philadelphia?"
Peg French plays the Brontë Sisters in the 1993 film Philadelphia.
- In a triple role, I guess.
Advertising Copywriting Hall of Fame
Farmer dad: For sixty years, families like ours have been growing apples for "Tree Top" brand apple juice, for families like yours!
Farmer granddad: Ripe, juicy apples -- picked at the peak of perfection! <Shot of cute little girl picking apples – possibly a child-labor violation.>
Farmer dad: And year after year, harvest after harvest, we've held to our core belief that the best quality apples make for the best tasting apple sauce and apple juice.
- I'm trying to decide what an apple farmer's
core beliefs
are.
- I'm trying to decide what an apple farmer's
At least, I hope it's unrelated to his Tektronix career
- From our article on electronic test equipment manufacturer Tektronix:
The following notable individuals currently work for Tektronix, or have previously worked for Tektronix in some capacity. This list includes persons who are notable for reasons unrelated to their Tektronix careers.
- Norm Winningstad: engineer; founder of Floating Point Systems, author
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: engineer; technical lead for the first commercial Smalltalk implementation; author of books on object-oriented programming
- Delbert Yocam: former president, COO; former COO of Apple Computer
- Craig Ryan: Technical writer, author of non-fiction Sonic Wind and film of same title.
- William D. Walker: former president, COO; former President of Electro Scientific Industries, former President of Planar Systems, former chair of Tek Foundation, former board of Oregon Graduate Center.
- Randall Woodfield: American serial killer.
How does that work, exactly?
- From "Stanford employee arrested, charged with falsifying rape allegations" (March 16, 2023):
Law professor Michele Dauber, who teaches a course about sexual violence called “One in Five: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Campus Sexual Assault,” wrote in an email to The Daily that false reports are “very rare.” Only two to ten percent of all reports are found to be false, a rate similar to falsified reports of other crimes including murder.
Betrand Russell, dope fiend
- From Boyer and Merzbach, A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.,1989), p. 685:
A decade later there appeared the first volume of Principia methamatica (3 vols., 1910–1913), by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead.
Missed opportunity
- Sign at London's Farringdon station
The mysterious East
- Closed captions accompanying an MSNBC talking head's commentary on the recent meeting between presidents Biden and Xi
FOR SHOOTING PAYING, HE REALLY
NEEDS THEIR.
HIS HAD ALSO IT'S A DOMESTIC.
PROBLEMS HE JUST SECTORS FOR
MR. AND HIS PORN MINISTER BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPTION.
Film notes from all over
Serious
Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
- —Sam Fuller (as "Joe") in The State of Things (1982).
Also serious
I knew it was much easier for me to pantomime than it was to talk. I'm an artist, and I knew very well in talking a lot of that would disappear ... I've always said that the pantomime is far more poetic and it has a universal appeal that everyone would understand if it were well done. The spoken word reduces everybody to a certain glibness. The voice is a beautiful thing, most revealing, and I didn’t want to be too revealing in my art because it may show a limitation. There are very few people with voices that can reach or give the illusion of great depth, whereas movement is as near to nature as a bird flying.
Unserious
Bowman's disappearance was Danburg's biggest thrill since the milkman eloped with the bootlegger's wife.
- —Intertitle in Lon Chaney's horror comedy film The Monster (1925).
Maybe a blue plaque?
- From our article on mathematician W. W. Rouse Ball:
He is commemorated in the naming of the small pavilion, now used as changing rooms and toilets, on Jesus Green in Cambridge.
I guess everything's east of something
SECAM is an abbreviation for Sequential Color and Memory. This video format is used in many Eastern countries such as the USSR, China, Pakistan, France, and a few others.
- Followup: According to a friend, SECAM alternatively stands for Signal Entirely Contrary to the American Method.
Shhhh! Don't tell anyone!
Well, at least it's not the math department
- Helpful info from Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature:
Qualifying Examination for the Doctoral Degree (“Orals”)
Candidates for the Ph.D. must take a qualifying oral examination in the fifth term of study. Orals assess students’ knowledge and understanding of their disciplines ... The exam will consist of six topics examined for fifteen minutes each for a total length of two hours.
Museum of understatement
- From our article on Oppie:
Oppenheimer did not take the news well. He jumped on Fergusson and tried to strangle him
"Next item on the agenda ..."
Bodycam footage shows the moment police in Fayetteville, Arkansas arrested Tyson Foods CFO John Tyson who was found asleep in a college-aged woman's bed on Nov. 6. In the video, Tyson appeared to be "disoriented" while officers tried to wake him up. He was charged with criminal trespass and public intoxication. A report said Tyson apologized during a call announcing Tyson Foods' fourth-quarter earnings.
MAGA Republicans, take note
- From our article Howard Mumford Jones:
In February 1954, Jones gave the dedicatory address at the opening of an addition to the University of Wisconsin's Memorial Library, entitled "Books and the Independent Mind." The crux of his comments was contained in this comment: "While it is true that we in this nation remain free to be idiotic, it does not necessarily follow that we must be idiotic in order to be free!"
Trump's kid goes to school here. You'll never guess what happened ...
- From our article on the ethically challenged Oxbridge Academy Foundation:
Oxbridge Academy Foundation, Inc. is a private coeducational college-preparatory middle and high school in West Palm Beach, Florida. Oxbridge Academy serves grades 7–12. Aimed at students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, the school has physical therapist on staff, chef-prepared lunches, a sailing and equestrian team, and a flight simulator.
The school was funded with a $50 million donation from Bill Koch. Koch's goal was to create a school for his own children where academically gifted students of all socioeconomic backgrounds could do hands-on projects and learn by problem solving, a place where students ruled. Oxbridge was opened in under a year on a 45-acre campus that once held a Jewish community center. By 2016 he had spent more than $75 million on the school. In 2011, Koch hired Robert C. Parsons to lead the school under titles president and chief executive ...
In April 2016, Mr. Koch announced that Academic Dean John Klemme would serve as the School's president, placing Mr. Parsons on paid leave pending an investigation of harassment claims. Parsons compensation package was worth $1 million, with an annual salary of about $600,000 per year. On May 27, 2016, Koch fired Parsons and declined to renew the contracts of Director of Athletics Craig Sponsky and the football coach Doug Socha; Koch noted that a "power elites group" in the school "ran the asylum" ... On June 20, 2018, the school announced that it was ending its football program after a number of its players transferred to other schools.
In 2016, the school self-reported athletic recruiting violations and forfeited all athletic victories for the previous two years ...
The Crash of 2020
- From our article on Matthew Freud:
According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Freud is worth an estimated £170 million, a decrease of £10 from the previous year.
Bigmouth
Correction
Don't worry, Donald, it's been 65 years since anyone's been put to death in the US for treasonous collaboration with Russia stealing nuclear secrets.
Johns
The secret lives of Proud Boys
- From our article on Beautiful Mystery, "one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan":
After a night of vigorous intercourse, the couple awaken only to discover that they have overslept and missed the coup.
More fucking Nazis
Re , which (AND I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP) was a reaction to , question: Did he mean Nazi fuckers
, or Nazi-fuckers
? The hyphen makes all the difference.
Followup
- In the opinion of John Adams :
In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
Schindler's lift
Museum of best-laid plans
- (From the much-missed MjolnirPants:)
Unbeknownst to me, my password manager saved my scrambled password ...
Party pooper
No surprise, come to think of it
- From the instructions for Form 1, the Massachusetts Resident Income Tax Return
Q: What is the Massachusetts voluntary higher tax rate?
A: You can elect to voluntarily pay tax at a rate of 5.85% on taxable income which would otherwise be taxed at a rate of 5%. Very few people make this election.
Museum of Regionalisms that Maybe Don't Travel So Well
But on Feb. 20, the men – Frederick, Michael Irvine and Kyle Dean – saw each other at Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center. To their shock and amusement, their sons were born in the same 24-hour period. "We were surprised that we all ended up there at the same time," Dean said with the understatement of a first responder who has seen a lot of unusual things on the job.
The men thought they should perhaps burn off some nervous energy by setting up a cornhole game during their downtime at the hospital, the same way they pass time at the firehouse. They quickly decided their two wives and one fiancee wouldn’t like that.
- I would think not.
Failed the quantitative section of the LSAT
- From "The Myth of Fingerprints", an episode of Law & Order:
Expert in lab coat: I found seven false positives out of the twenty that I tested.
Assistant DA: <shakes head in disbelief> That's almost a third!
Burning issues of the day
- From MSNBC's on-screen "crawl" during its coverage of the 2021 Colorado wildfires:
LIVE INTERVIEW: BOULDER MAYOR ON FIRE
Good idea
- From our overcooked article on the Donner Party:
The next morning, the group stripped the muscle and organs from the bodies of Antonio, Dolan, Graves, and Murphy. They dried them to store for the days ahead, taking care to ensure nobody would have to eat his or her relatives.
Sentences we didn't finish reading
- From our article on Terminal cleaning:
Terminal cleaning is a cleaning method used in healthcare environments ...
The Adventures of ... SUPERMAN!
- From news item, "Massachusetts man who stopped armed robbery honored with prestigious Carnegie Medal", September 24, 2021 :
LaPierre saved a mother and her baby from a crushed car in Canton, put a Newton neighborhood at ease when he quickly found a missing 8-foot python and is now being honored for stopping an armed robbery.
Museum of very, very naughty people
Doctor who took part in illegal rectal search pleads guilty in federal drug case
Museum of creative ways to encourage civic engagement
- Headline in the Decatur, Illinois, Herald & Review, June 9, 2010:
Former Bloomington police officer appeals rape conviction based on too much pornography being shown to jury
One of these is not like the others
- From our article University of Tennessee Health Science Center:
- ==Notable alumni==
- Winfield C. Dunn, DDS, Class of 1955, Tennessee Governor 1971–1975
- William E. Evans, PharmD, Class of 1975, director and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital from 2004 to 2014.
- Randy McNally, MPharm, Class of 1969, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee 2017–present.
- Rhea Seddon, MD, Class of 1973, former NASA astronaut and eighth woman inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
- Christopher Duntsch, neurosurgeon sentenced to life in prison for intentionally botching 32 surgeries that killed two patients and paralyzed two others
Nothing and Beingness
Museum of Ass-ential Services
- From our article on Homobiles, "an American nonprofit organization founded in 2011 which provides rides primarily to the San Francisco LGBT community [focusing] on customers that taxis did not want to pick up – those wearing glitter, assless chaps, or unable to pay the fare":
Some riders report that they are unable to get rides due to their glitter makeup as the glitter can be hard for the driver to clean up following the ride.
Museum of Unnecessary Categories
This typo was so full of amusing possibilities that I really hated to kill it
- From our article Flight attendant:
The Vicki Barr: Flight Stewardess book series, in which Vicki's career "brings her glamorous friends, exciting adventures, loyal roommates and dates with a hand some young pilot and an up-and-coming reporter" ...
Museum of Better Reword That
- MSNBC anchor Katy Tur teasing an upcoming segment, Feb. 22, 2010:
And still ahead ... more than five decades after their deaths, the daughters of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King come together for an extraordinary discussion about their fathers' legacies, and the future.
- Personal note: After watching the interview I'm bound to say that for people dead five decades they look remarkably lifelike.
Really, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY Better Reword That
- Edit summary for an edit to our article "Catholic Church sexual abuse cases":
And while you're rewording things ...
- Reporter Hallie Jackson interviewing Representative Jim Clyburn on MSNBC, January 12, 2023:
Some of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle have drawn parallels between what is happening now as it relates to the revelation of these classified documents found in the president's private areas and what happened with former president Trump.
Museum of Somewhat Odd Juxtapositions
- From the lead of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.:
He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888–1969) and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890–1995).
Museum of Possibly Unnecessary Information
- CNN anchor Yasmin Vossoughian (February 21, 2021) filling us in on a jetliner engine failure which began with a "loud boom", after which "debris from the engine fell out of the sky":
Passengers in the plane were shocked.
Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from The Twilight Zone
Lights begin flashing on and off in houses throughout the neighborhood; lawnmowers and car engines start and stop for no apparent reason. The mob becomes hysterical, hurling accusations, smashing windows, and taking up weapons as the situation devolves into an all-out riot.
The scene cuts to a nearby hilltop, where it is revealed the shadow that flew overhead is, indeed, an alien spaceship. Its crew are watching the riot on Maple Street while using a device to manipulate the neighborhood's power. They comment on how simply fiddling with consistency leads people to descend into paranoia and panic, and that this is a pattern that can be exploited. They also discuss their intention to use this strategy to conquer Earth, one neighborhood at a time. They then ascend a stairway into their spaceship.
Museum of Cultural Differences
- Alarming information from our article on Dutch babies:
A Dutch baby is always baked in the oven, rather than being fried on both sides on the stove top.
Now Not available in stores!
Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia
- One hundred years ago, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as "Dr. Seuss") arguably began his writing career by authoring a book review of a railroad timetable and contributing to the Dartmouth College humor magazine Jack-O-Lantern.[2] Since then millions of children – young and old – have delighted in the wit and wisdom of his iconic books with their hallucinatory illustrations. In celebration of this centennial, The Signpost has blatantly hijacked some of Seuss's most familiar works (and a few less familiar ones) in service of the perhaps questionable goal of indoctrinating a new generation of editors in the wacky ways of Wikipedia.
said young Gerald McGrew,
"And the fellow who runs it
seems proud of it, too."
| “ | You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way! |
” |
| — Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! | ||
All around the world
they're editing.
And so they don't need me.
Let others edit Switzerland
or Memphis, Tennessee.
Let them edit in Alaska
and in China.
I don't care.
Let others edit Italy.
Let others edit Spain.
Let them edit Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Maine.
Someone else can edit London
and Paris and Berlin.
Let them edit all they want to.
But not me.
I'm sleeping in.[10]
My wonderful weapon, the Rollbacker-Snatchem,
will roll back those edits as quick as we catch 'em.[12]
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can redirect articles
any places you choose.[13]
Ei! What a committee! Fit for its purpose!
Our clerks they love clerking. They say, "Work us! Please work us!
We'll clerk and we'll clerk until we're lightheaded
(But you'll only see half 'cause discussion's unthreaded!)" [14]
| “ | I'm a North-Going Zax and I always go north. Get out of my way, now, and let me go forth! |
” |
| — Dr. Seuss, The Zax | ||
I learned there are vandals of more than one kind.
to be blocked by me! [20]
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But they gave me the bit – I'm all ready you see.
Now those vandals are going(Sequel: I Had Trouble Reporting to AIV, Too)
| “ | And to Think That I Saw It in a Featured Article[21]  Those stars weren't so big. They were really so small. You might think such a thing wouldn't matter at all. |
” |
| — Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches and Other Stories | ||
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant ...
ArbCom is faithful, one hundred per cent! [27]
| “ | Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. |
” |
| — Dr. Seuss, The Lorax | ||
Link internal, external, piped or unpiped.
Oh, the links you can link up however you like!
Don't link left-wing or right-wing, promo or spam.
Practice safe linking whenever you can! [28]
Wrote the Far Western part
Of south-east North Dakota,
And a very fine article
About the iota,
But I'll write a stub
That is even much finer
On the north-eastern west part
Of South Carolina.[36]
Editors know, up top you see great sights,
but down here at the bottom, we too should have rights.[37]
| “ | Are you sure everyone on enwiki is working? Quick! Check the contribs! Is anyone shirking? [38] |
” |
| “ | I'm sorry to say so but sadly it's true that edit conflicts can happen to you.[39] |
” |
The Cat in the Hat
| “ | The Waiting Place A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? |
” |
| — Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! | ||
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
That wasn't me, it was my brother.
My brother edits little bits
Fixing words like its and it's.[46]
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*Non-geeks should refer to our article on POP3.
A Little Dab'll Do Ya!  | Too Many Dabs[47]
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Ön Beyond Zebra!
"I'm telling you this
'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts
where your alphabet ends! ...
So, on beyond Z!
It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know
All there is to be known."
- Lathem, Edward Connery, ed. (2004) [1976]. "The Beginnings of Dr. Seuss: An Informal Reminiscence". Dartmouth College. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!: "All around the world / they're getting up. / And that's okay with me. / Let the kids get up in Switzerland / ... or Memphis, Tennessee. / Let the kids get up in Alaska / ... and in China. / I don't care. / Let the kids get up in Italy. / Let the kids get up in Spain. / Let them get up in Massachusetts / and Connecticut and Maine. / Let the kids get up in London / and in Paris and Berlin. / Let them get up all they want to. / But not me. / I'm sleeping in."
- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!: "Just go. Go. GO! / I don't care how. / You can go by foot. / You can go by cow."
- The Butter Battle Book: ""My wonderful weapon, the Jigger-Rock Snatchem, / will fling 'em right back just as quick as we catch 'em."
- Oh, the Places You'll Go!: "You have brains in your head. / You have feet in your shoes. / You can steer yourself any direction you choose."
- If I Ran the Circus: "Ei! Ei! What a circus! My Circus McGurkus! / My workers love work. They say, "Work us! Please work us! / We'll work and we'll work up so many surprises / You'd never see half if you had forty eyeses!"
- I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew: "And I learned there are troubles / Of more than one kind. / Some come from ahead / And some come from behind. / But I've bought a big bat. / I'm all ready, you see. / Now my troubles are going / To have troubles with me!"
- Horton Hears a Who!: "I'll just have to save him. Because, after all, / A person's a person, no matter how small."
- Horton Hatches the Egg: "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. / An elephant's faithful, one hundred per cent!"
- Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!: "Think left and think right / and think low and think high. / Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
- If I Ran the Zoo: "In the Far Western part / Of south-east North Dakota / Lives a very fine animal / Called the Iota. / But I'll capture one / Who is even much finer / In the north-eastern west part / Of South Carolina."
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories: "I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, / But down here at the bottom, we, too, should have rights."
- Horton Hears a Who!: "Are you sure every Who down in Who-ville is working? / Quick! Look through your town! Is there anyone shirking?"
- Oh, the Places You'll Go!: "I'm sorry to say so / but, sadly, it's true / that Bang-ups / and Hang-ups / can happen to you."
- Hop on Pop: "FATHER / MOTHER / SISTER / BROTHER / That one is my other brother. / My brothers read a little bit. / Little words like / If and it."
- Green Eggs and Ham: "I will not eat them in the rain. / I will not eat them on a train. / Not in the dark! Not in a tree! / Not in a car! You let me be! / I do not like them in a box. / I do not like them with a fox. / I will not eat them in a house. / I do not like them with a mouse. / I do not like them here or there. / I do not like them ANYWHERE! / I do not like green eggs and ham! / I do not like them, / Sam-I-am."
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Wikipedia is not about whining
Diffusing Conflict
Diffusing conflict
Now and then someone undertakes to "diffuse" a conflict budding somewhere in the project. Probably they really mean they want to defuse the problem, as in "remove its fuse" – like from a bomb – to avoid blow-ups. Diffusing a conflict would be to spread it over a wide area, which is presumably not the intention.
Sometimes people write lengthy posts at WP:ANI, or propose Arbcom cases, or use the images on this page, in hopes of defusing a situation; however, the ensuing drama often means the conflict is diffused instead.
Smoke can be seen diffusing at left. Next time, call the bomb defusing team.
Avoid blow-ups
Next customer!
External links
- "12 tips for diffusing office conflict" (especially recommended – from Pest Management Professional)
- "How to Diffuse a Difficult Situation - in Just Five Words" (for those in a hurry to begin diffusing) - "There's a simple sentence that can help you to diffuse a difficult situation, and stop a fight before it begins." Possibly that's "with all due respect".
- "The 1 Skill Leaders Need To Diffuse A Conflict Between Employees" (for when the diffusion need is urgent)
- MANAGING CONFLICT AND DIFFUSING ANGER (for advanced diffusers)
Casting dispersions, inciteful comments, and so on
Closely related concepts include:
- duel citizens
- casting dispersions, casting of ass Persians, veiled ass Persians, or even unnecessary ass Persians
- Casting aspirations -- Which turns out (wonderful to say} to actually be a thing:
Casting aspiration happens when air is drawn into the molten metal as it is poured in the downsprue
. - making inciteful or half-hazard comments
- hoisting blame
- being foist with one's own petard (or pittard)
- (not) supporting something in good conscious
- sewing chaos
- receiving carpe blanch
- maintaining a civil and constructive manor
- venturing where angles fear to tread
- their abouts which have never been found
- pedaling bogus arguments
- committing sudoku
- being or resulting or acting for all intensive purposes
- feeling loathe to do something (or maybe doing it weather or not)
- throwing out the baby with the batwater
- much adieu about nothing
- editors who have aired on the side of caution
- having the gaul to do something
- Non-consensual editing
- the no personnel [sic] attacks policy
Making inciteful comments
We can't support you in good conscious
Sewing chaos
An effluent neighborhood- Much adieu about nothing
Having de Gaulle to do something
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A civil and constructive manor
She's going to work weather or not
Breeches of civility
The right to bare arms
Buy in large
Aired on the side of caution
Where angles fear to tread
Pedaling bogus arguments
It's a doggie-dog world
My curiosity
was peeked![My curiositywas peaked[citation needed]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Lemon_Meringue_Pie.jpg/330px-Lemon_Meringue_Pie.jpg)
For all intensive purposes
Non-consensual editing (Not illustrated: sensual editing)
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Applying solutions
Conflict is inevitable when dealing with other editors, so knowing how to apply the proper solution is key. When discussion looks like it's about to explode, it's important to diffuse the balm, before things get out of hand.
Significant coverage
"I have now also added sauces to the page"[1]
Significant coverage in multiple independent sauces
Significant coverage in multiple independent saucers
Significant coverage in multiple independent sorcerors
Significant coverage in multiple independent salsas
Significant coverage in multiple independent sawsedges
Significant coverage in multiple independent sawstops
Significant coverage in multiple independent sawtooths
Significant coverage in Kabul, Afghanistan (not Iran, so we are not casting as Persians)
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Guide to unappealing or appalling blocks
- Stalkers are invited to contribute appalling or unappealing blocks to this collection (perhaps later to be broken out as its own page)
- Admins note! Important! It is unethical (and time-consuming) to go out and make an appalling block just to get something on the list!
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-04-24/Office actions
- "hands-down the worst block I've seen in my time on Wikipedia, and I've seen some whoppers"
- Intent to unblock
An appalling block
Unappalling blocks
External links
Fusing conflicts
Fusing conflict
Queen Elizabeth slipped majestically into the water
Queen Elizabeth slipped majestically into the water
- (hypothetical)
After Queen Elizabeth broke a bottle of champagne against the ship's gigantic bow, she slipped majestically into the water.
- (from the Featured Article SMS Emden)
During this period, she also served as the escort for Kaiser Wilhelm II aboard his yacht Hohenzollern.
- (from the article HMS Elk (1804))
Fearing that he might lose the prize if the winds changed, Morris rammed her.
- (from the article HMS Monmouth (1796))
Archibald Dickson raised his flag in her.
- (from the article HMS Indefatigable (1784))
She had a long career under several distinguished commanders.
- (from The Appleton Weekly Post, 1907)
Lusitania does not appear to be so lusty as the Mauretania ... If Lussie doesn't hump herself and do it first she won't be in it with her big sister.
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See also
- Wikipedia:The problem with elegant variation (featured in The New Yorker -- really! )
- "Ships—sexist or sexy?", The Signpost, 2014-10-15.
- Wikipedia:Into the Woulds
References
- In the many, MANY, MANY debates on the subject of referring to ships as she, much ink has been spilled in argument over whether or not that practice is sexist. It seems unnecessary to answer that question, however, since the stupidity and pretension of such references should be enough, on their own, to decide the bottom-line issue . But in case it's not obvious (and apparently it's not ): the thrust (<cough>) of this essay's examples is to illustrate that -- as so often is the case -- stupidity, pretension, and sexism (not to mention other distasteful -isms) often go hand in hand.
- "The Lusitania ..." The Appleton Weekly Post. October 17, 1907. p. 6. Retrieved January 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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